“Assault on Precinct 13” marks the return of the R-rated action movie. It is the dark and savvy remake of John Carpenter’s 1976 cult classic of the same name, which in turn was inspired by Howard Hawks’ 1959 Rio Bravo. French Director Francois Richet’s American filmmaking debut has done right by the cult favorite about a ragtag group of cops and criminals trapped in a police station. The thrill of this dark action flick is rightly focused on the characters, eerie setting, and tons of stripped down
they did not take any part in it. Suddenly a cop car came out of nowhere and the group of boys all started running different directions, the police ran after the group and detained the five boys, they were then taken to the precinct (The Central Park Five). Once at the precinct the detectives began questioning the boys. After hours of an intense interrogation the boys self-incriminated themselves in the
1970, Hawks made another film that told the same story with Rio Lobo, again starring John Wayne, making it a trilogy. In 1976, the anecdote was retold again by John Carpenter with his movie, Assault on Precinct 13. Then again in 2005 by Director Jean Francois Richet with his release of Assault on Precinct 13 Even though there are more similarities than differences in these movies, it only goes to show how the same story can be retold over and over again, with some minor differences and character
The Digital Research Library of Illinois History, Ph. D Neil Gale wrote an article regarding Gacy, it is said that Gacy grew up manage a fast food restaurant in the 1960’s and in the early 1970’s he became a self- made contractor and a Democratic precinct captain of Chicago’s Norwood Park Community. Gacy was well known member of his community who would even dress as a clown for children's birthday parties (Gale 2017). John married and divorced twice and had children from both marriages. Despite leading
Hollywood is an interesting entity, it provides the world with entertainment that is exciting, emotional, unique and so much more. At the same time, however, it’s hard not to see Hollywood as a money grubbing industry, full of sleazy deals, awful movies and it has even produced films completely diluted of originality. One style of filmmaking that often gets this label of unoriginality is remakes, which “While genre films, cycles, and sequels… have found their legitimate place in film theory and criticism
On the night of December 13, 2013 Beyoncé, released her fifth self-titled album on ITunes. The album caught many people by surprise because Beyoncé did not set a date for the album, nor did she use any promotion; she did release a video on her Instagram asking her followers if they “were ready”. The buzz spread through social media like a wild fire. With no promotion or no warning, Beyoncé album took the world by storm and made it for her audience and critics to take in the album and it contents
out supplies to the capital and then made daily raids into the city. Using Horses, cannons, crossbows, dogs, guns and the allied tribes to fight there way to the center of the city and within 80 days Cortés’ war strategies crippled the Aztecs. By the 13 of august 1521 captured the new King and the mission was accomplished.
morning of June 28th, 1969, the unthinkable finally occurred in the open community of Greenwich, Manhattan. Deputy Inspector Seymour Pine of Manhattan's First Division of Public Morals had set two male and two female officers undercover in the bar on 13 the night of Friday, June 27th under suspicions of illegal dispensing of liquor. As Pine’s plan to 14 gather intel continued through the night and his two male officers returned, he anxiously awaited the return of the female officers. However, as time
The COMPSTAT ( Compare-Statistics) system was developed by the New York Police Department in 1994 and is credited with having a significant impact on the reduction of major crimes in New York city. COMPSTAT is internationally recognized as having become an extremely successful tool, incorporating accurate crime intelligence analysis methods and streamlining law enforcement management processes, including the seeding of power to local district commanders. In broad strokes, COMPSTAT can be described
The Young Lords of New York On 7 June 1969, hundreds of Puerto Ricans gathered in Spanish Harlem, New York City to protest the arrest of Juan" Fi" Ortiz for a series of falsified crimes.[2] As a crowd gathered outside the People's Church in El Barrio, Felipe Luciano addressed those assembled asserting that, " We will not allow the brutalization of our community to go on without a response. For every Puerto Rican that is brutalized, there will be retaliation."[3]Luciano's statements were not